Pro-Government Syrian Hackers Strike Back Against Anonymous

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A group of pro-government Syrian hackers launched a counterattack
today (Aug. 9) against Anonymous, the hacking group that defaced
Syria's Ministry of Defense website yesterday.

Hackers hijacked the yet-to-be-launched website of Anonymous' new
social networking service AnonPlus, posting on the home page
gruesome pictures of burned bodies and allegations that Syrian
protestors are responsible for the deaths of Syrian citizens and
members of the country's military, Computerworld
reported.

The tampered Anonymous page read, "In response to your hacking
[to] the website of Syrian Ministry of Defense, the Syrian people
have decided to purify the Internet of [y]our pathetic website.
Your website has been hacked, and here we leave you these photos
showing the scale of terrorism committed by Muslim Brotherhood
Organization, whose members have been killing Syrian citizens —
civilians and military."

Anonymous, by defacing Syria's
Ministry of Defense website yesterday, joined the protest of
President Bashar al-Assad's violent campaign against
anti-government demonstrators.

In a message posted to Twitter, the University of Toronto's
Citizen
Lab attributed the retaliatory attack to the Syrian
Electronic Army, a group that has been linked to other hacks on
websites that have posted content critical of the Syrian regime.